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Table of contents

INTRODUCTION
PICTURES
MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS
SIGNS AND ABBREVIATIONS USED

I. AUTOGRAPHS
Compositions for stage
Separate arias inserted into Haydn’s own operas and into those of other composers
Miscellaneous arias, songs
Choral works with orchestra
Oratorios
Masses
Symphonies (HoV. I.)
Divertimenti for more than 4 instruments (HoV. II.)
String Quartets (HoV. IV.)
Concertos (HoV. VII).
Marches (HoV. VIII.)
Dances (HoV. IX.)
Baryton Divertimenti and fragments of Divertimenti (HoV. X-XI.)
Divertimento for pianoforte (HoV. XIV.)

II. CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT COPIES
Compositions for stage
Arias of Haydn inserted into his own operas or into those of other composers
Solo songs with piano or orchestra
Polyphonic songs with piano
Choral work with orchestra
Oratorios
Masses
Requiem, Te Deum, Stabat Mater
Miscellaneous Church Music
Symphonies (HoV. I.)
Overtures (HoV. Ia.)
Divertimenti for more than 4 instruments (HoV. II.)
String Quartets (HoV. III.)
String Trios (HoV. V.)
String Duos (HoV. VI.)
Concertos (HoV. VII.)
Transcriptions of Baryton Divertimenti (from HoV. X and XI.)
Baryton Trios (HoV. XI.)
Baryton Duos (HoV. XII.)
Divertimenti for pianoforte with various instruments (HoV. XIV.)
Trios for Pianoforte, Violin and Violoncello (HoV. XV.)
Sonatas for Pianoforte (HoV. XVI.)
Transcriptions for pianoforte (HoV. XVII. Anh.)

III. CONTEMPORARY PRINTED DOCUMENTS
Compositions for stage
Inserted arias
Solo songs with pianoforte
Polyphonic songs with pianoforte
Oratorios, Cantatas
Masses
Miscellaneous church music
Symphonies (HoV. I.)
Overtures (HoV. Ia.)
Divertimenti and transcriptions for more than 4 instruments (HoV. II.)
String Sextet transcription
String quartets (HoV. III.)
Transcription for string quartet
Transcriptions for string trios
Marches (HoV. VIII.)
Dances (HoV. IX.)
Trios for Pianoforte, Violin and Violoncello (HoV. XV.)
Transcriptions for Trios for Pianoforte, Violin and Violoncello (Hov. XV. Anh.)
Minor compositions for pianoforte (HoV. XVII.)
Transcriptions for pianoforte
Orchestral version of the "Sieben Worte"

ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF VOCAL COMPOSITIONS
REGISTER OF THE INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITIONS
OPERAS INCLUDED IN THE LIST, NOT COMPOSED BY HAYDN
INDEX OF NAMES

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Foreword

On the occasion of the Anniversary '1809-1959' almost every musical institution in Hungary is contributing to the program of the commemorative year. The Hungarian nation will pay its tribute of admiration to the memory of Haydn both in the scientific and in the musical field. Conferences and exhibitions will be arranged, a volume of collected studies and other publications dedicated to his memory will be issued, some original works will be published, etc. A series of concerts, opera performances, gramophone recordings are planned, short-films and anthologies made up from his lesser known works (opera arias, baryton trios) will be devoted to his memory as Hungary's contribution on this festive occasion.

The Haydn Collection of the National Széchényi Library not only forms the core of the exhibition, but serves as a basis for many publications and performances included in the program referred to above. This is the very reason why it was felt necessary to review this collection according to certain viewpoints on the present occasion.

The material related to Haydn of the National Széchényi Library is composed of several parts and within the library it is distributed among the various departments in keeping with the character of the material. Besides musical material and analects in the Music Collection, other departments of the Library hold numerous hand-written and printed Haydn documents. Outside of books, pamphlets, periodicals and newspapers, all concerned with Haydn and found in the basic stock of the library, attention is drawn to the material of the so-called Special Collections which contain further groups of Haydn documents: letters in the Manuscript Department, programs and librettos in the Theatre-History Department and in particular the "Acta Musicalia" within the latter group, which is composed of selected documents of the one-time Esterházy-archives, supplying in addition interesting data on the theatre of Haydn s epoch; finally valuable documents are held by the Department of Posters and Small Prints as well as by the Collection of Ancient and Rare Printed Books.

The present volume is an account of the Haydn material in the Music Collection of the National Széchényi Library; it does not include the Haydn material in the other departments. This latter type of material is already being dealt with in another publication and a bibliography of the contemporary Hungarian press on Haydn is also under preparation as a separate publication. On the other hand, a registration of the complete Haydn material of the Music Collection has not yet been published, only references to certain pieces have been made in various collected editions, lexica and bibliographies. Almost all these references have one feature in common, i. e. the denomination and location of the Collection is misquoted or former owners of some parts of the Collection are indicated. Thus the designation "Esterházy-Archivum Budapest" (Esterházy Archives) is often encountered although that collection, today, contains archival material only being an integral part of the stock of the "Országos Levéltár" (National Archives). Equally frequent are references to the "Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum" (Hungarian National Museum) which is equally incorrect because the National Széchényi Library, formerly a part of the Hungarian National Museum, was separated from it and became an independent institution. Such a reference therefore might be confusing in discriminating the collection of the history of instruments in the Museum from the collection of musical material of the National Széchényi Library.

A combination of the two erroneous designations mentioned above is often encountered: "Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Esterházy-Archívum" (Hungarian National Museum, Esterházy-Archives); such an institution has never existed. As mentioned previously, the Theatre History Department of the Library holds a group of files referring to theatre and selected from the documents of the former Esterházy-Archives. These papers are known by the name of "Acta Musicalia", they do not however include any musical material, although when reference is somewhere made to it, it is likely to be mentioned in this connection.

Finally, it should be pointed out that even important encyclopaedical works, in registering the works of Haydn make the location of some autographs actually in our possession as disputable, or simply declare these as lost. All these reasons alone sufficiently motivate the publication of a comprehensive description of Haydn's works in our Library.

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